Yes, we are back and it is winter. In the winter of 1995-1996 people died. Three of those included Eugene Upper, Irwin Anderson, and Mirsalah-Aldin Kompani. Our country accepts the deaths of those with and without names at the rates of 1 or more per week during the winter months. People in the homeless community seem to think it is not getting better, it is just getting worse. Food is not easier to find, shelters are overcrowded due to the closure of beds over the past years.... and we find more names: Frank Julian, Carolyn Connolly, Dennis Bowen, Robert Maurice, Biniyam Selleshi. John Doe. Jane Doe. Brent Sims.
But I said I would write about hope. Today is not the best day for it I guess. But it is not that i want to address futile hopes but the idea of realistic or pragmatic hopes. Hopes that have potential of being realised via committment, attention, imagination, and persistence.... hopes for economic and social justice, equity, and....
